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Small Modular Reactor (SMR), sold to everywhere to bury underground and power a large neighborhood.
What could go wrong, right?
Ye gods. The amount of evil unleashed due to capitalism and greed is sickening.
7:30 -the number of neutrons in the only stable isotope of cobalt (Co-59) is not 27, but 32. 27 is the number of protons (the atomic number). So it takes just one neutron to transform a stable, naturally occurring atom of cobalt into the radioactive Cobalt-60, not five neutrons.
Fortunately today such radiation sources are a thing of the past, being replaced by electron accelerators with X-ray conversion.
Talk about a spicy metal.
Anybody confused about the yellow smoke, its a product of the lead being vaporized by the excessive heat. Not related to the toxic sludge or anything.
Basically looks like a yellow smoke bomb. Also probably looks like an EPA fine of some sort too.
Great video, but can you drop the constant zooming in and out, it's really annoying.
Gamma emitters scare me. We cut uranium at work it never scared me you just treat it like lead or cadmium.
alpha emitters even plutonium i wouldn't be scared to touch then but we are scared of beryllium we won't let it come into the building. A customer asked the owners about beryllium the owners hit the roof,.
I would think people would see the radiation symbol and be scared. But that is just me i might not be normal. Nuclear energy was something I was fascinated with even as a child I even served in the navy in nuclear propulsion.
This is Goiania, but in Thailand, and 14 years after those lessons should have been learned worldwide.
I know this channel covers pretty dark subjects… But I freakin' love it. Confronting our mistakes and learning from them is the only way humans will have a future.
Mr Whistler. I’m a semi-regular viewer and feel a lot of the videos you host are barely past the clickbait definition. Which is fine, they do have usually accurate information so they just scrape over the line. Which is the intention, I suspect.
But this one? Tour de force. It has all the ingredients of a sharks and Nazis type cliche but is handled well, tells a story that most people may not have heard, provides interesting and potentially life saving information and is full of human interest and precautionary tales.
I’m sure you don’t give a shit what a rando in the comments says, but you should give yourself a pat on the back.
I’m gonna subscribe just because of this incredible and brilliantly told story.
I think there's a whole song about this subject. I'd think you like it, being British an' all.
https://youtu.be/VLgNl03g93U?si=6nh2yWkein1Dg2AX
This is horror story that is fit for Halloween. Makes my hair stand.
Well that's a fun tale of corporate responsibility and government regulation.
similar case happed in Delhi too
Cobalt 60 is *terrifying*, as anyone that's worked around nuclear power can tell you. Out of all the various isotopes i can think of, none is more ridiculously, pant-ŝĥîtṭîńĝły scary that Co-60; the halflife falls right in that sweet spot between "radioactive AF but dissipates relatively quickly" and "lasts long enough that the problem is now long-term". Cobalt-60 won't just give you acute radiation sickness… It'll sit in your body and slowly shred you from the inside out with gamma rays and beta particles over the course of YEARS, even in tiny, minute amounts.
For those interested, Cobalt-60 in reactors comes from the bombardment of Cobalt-59 or Nickel-60. Nickel is widespread and a constituent metal in a wide variety of the alloys used in powerplants, and Cobalt is common in wear-resistant alloys like those found in valve seats.
Well that's what happens when you're a thief.
Thank you for showing the importance of education to do with hazardous materials. Also could you do something on how the biohazard symbol came to be that's similar to this video?